October 31, 2011

And I watched that MS video you posted. Absolutely ridiculous futurism
fantasy. The only thing I found reasonably probable was the flat white display
the guy was using at his desk. But this transparent little credit card sized
phone that can generate holograms and apparently has no battery? Come on, even
Star Trek never went this far into the absurd. Earth: Final Conflict did with
their rollup phones, but those at least are potentially on the horizon.
J I
also like how the voice recognition doesn't misunderstand a thing. We both know
real-world voice recognition leaves much to be desired. And of course, OS
stability and self-healing is still not quite where it needs to be either.

But what REALLY made me laugh was the refrigerator that tracks how much of what
you have and orders it for you. That little slice of pie in the sky has been
the funniest bit of vaporware floating about the internet since some fool stuck
a TV screen into a fridge door. LOL I mean seriously, are we that lazy we need
the fridge to make out our grocery list? And will it talk to the cabinet doors
and medicine chest so they can take stock of how much Clorox, floor wax, and
Advil we've got on hand?

And of course there's no mention of security or privacy because in the idyllic
world, no one can hack your phone, tabletop, or refrigerator. And that info
about where you're going won't be left anywhere after you exit the cab. ;-)
Trust us!

But hey, I'm still waiting for the 42" concave wrap-around monitor MS Research
promised would be on the market in 2003. J
Guess that was a non-starter too. Oh well, where would Silicon Valley be
without grand dreamers like these guys casting wide nets into the "what if"? I
guess I shouldn't scoff too much, they finally came out with a phone OS that
works. Sadly it took Google to do it. :D

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